How to dig a well with your own hands ^Favorite

You will need at least two people to work: one digs up the soil and fills it with a bucket, the other raises this bucket to the surface. This is done with the help of a winch. An alternative is a gate. You can do it yourself, and wrap a cable or chain around it. Exposing concrete rings is also possible using this facility.

They begin to install when the pit is not less than half a meter in depth. The next one is placed on top of the first ring, the soil inside the ring continues to be dug. Under the influence of their own weight, the rings will settle deeper. If a cutter mounted on a shoe is placed under the first ring, such a deepening will occur faster and easier.

Based on practical experience, we can say: it is best to choose concrete rings of medium parameters. So, if the diameter of the ring is less than 1 meter, then working inside it will be extremely inconvenient. If it is larger, and even at the same height, then the ring will be completely too heavy. So, the ideal ring size can be considered: 1 m - inner diameter, outer - 1.10, height - 25 cm.

Rings placed one on top of the other, if they are evenly dug, will independently go deep into the soil until the aquifer is reached. This should be expected no earlier than 4 to 5 days. So that they do not move, they are additionally connected with metal brackets.

There is also the option of constructing a well when rings are dropped into a completely dug shaft. But it is less secure. After all, someone must be at the bottom of this mine, and the soil may fall on him. Therefore, proceeding to the independent construction of the well, it is better to use the above option, when the rings gradually settle under the influence of their weight.